Reply With QuoteHere inAR they are a trash/nuicance fish. Especially in the aquaculture ponds. On the ponds where I work, they can get to filletable size and a few of the guys I work with will fillet and eat them. I have not, but they say they are ok eating.
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Slabmaster
Wow, i didnt know about these things. i had caught one here in the st.johns river a few weeks ago, it had me thinking it was half bass/half bream. i called it a weird looking bass and tossed it back.
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Here inAR they are a trash/nuicance fish. Especially in the aquaculture ponds. On the ponds where I work, they can get to filletable size and a few of the guys I work with will fillet and eat them. I have not, but they say they are ok eating.
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Looks like a Brim Sunfish. Think you are right Joe they do look like a pumkinseedOriginally Posted by TeeJay
Last edited by Ken Jones; 05-22-2008 at 05:35 PM.
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Yep, they sort of look like a cross between a bluegill and a pumpkinseed, but they have a much larger mouth than either, almost like the mouth on a rock bass.
Slabmaster
anyone eating these things? i caught a few more today. i saw 1 and casted to it and he hooked right up. nice fight for a small fish. i considered keeping em but they were too small. are they a big enough nuisance to give the mudfish treatment(racoon food)?
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We have them here in Iowa, but I saw more of them when I was younger than I do now.
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Rice slicks and are poison for a small bass pond. Egg eating machines. small pond with slicks will soon be way out of balance.
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yes you can eat them. I catch big ones from time to time in the spawn and even fillet them up like a bluegill.
They have great color when they spawn
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